All the Wahine need to do is continue their play offensively and put up at least 2 blocks on Reid everytime she swings and they will win this match. No doubt BG knows they cant play offensively against UH so they went after their defense so any offensive threat theyve got (Reid) needs to be shut down and they should win. Kudos for both team on not giving up on set 2.

Hartong 26-7-65, Vorster 12-0-16, Kastl 11-3-28
a really dumb comment from Barnett. Oh UH down 0-2 against UOP and Shoji thinking that he was going to lose all the fans for the next home match if they lost.

PM, she’s doing just fine with Vorster. not much chance for Adolpho. Interesting call touch call puts LBS. up 13-12. got to also mention UH’s passing not great and LBS’s success is when running the double quick in the middle. Plus a number of LBS’s kills in the middle have been from UH overpasses. not like the setter was ‘running the middle’ on that.

I know UH using both setter, not fully blaming it all on Uiato, although from what I’ve seen mostly this season is even with a good shot Uiato still does whatever she wants hence why Stauber has been pretty active in the double sub with Shoji having to replaced her. With that said I think this one should be on the coaching staff’s plate in making sure not one player had to do this many swings. It is just not fair for that particular player amongst other things. They should have been a plan in place instead of ” when the pass goes array go to your LS” thats why our offense is pretty easy to read coz all you need to do is serve tough and put your best blockers up on the RS. Im not saying I know what the answer is, I respect Shoji but he needs to look at BG’s playbook tonight. Although the beach loss, he put up a hell of a game plan.

kidding aside, huge kudos to the Wahine for fighting thru, they showed a lot of character tonight. This is a good win for them they should be proud because BG had a good plan and the Beach followed thru with it. At the end Wahine’s spirit won.

Extremely proud of UH…Managed to win in a very difficult venue with a patchwork quilt lineup…Sure Hartong got a lot of sets, but she’s the go-to player & I think Uiato mixed it up just enough to be successful…Looking at the stats, UH played very well…

not so much the dink shots tonight as The Beach setter being offensive. Which UH has traditionally had problems with.
But agree, they still are working on their covers and hesitating too much. some of that due to having different players in and no one sure who gets the second ball. or even the first.

Hawaii is just not great at picking up balls in the middle of the court, whether its coming from the setter or the outside. I don’t recall seeing a hawaii hitter with a nice intentional tip shot tonight, either.

Agreed, I’ve been saying it all season and most of their opponents did it to Hawaii and have been successful, Wahine dont know how to deal with soft shots and dings in front of the 3- meter line. Its an unknown to their defense.

Agreed, thats why sometimes I disagree when they say throw out the passing game. While I agree that it all begins in passing, there are times setters needs to make do with what they’ve got. Anotherthing I noticed with Uiato, is that she doesnt ask for a lot of help unlike other teams so you see her running desperately and guess where the set goes?

Agree with the announcers in that Long Beach passed really well, allowing the team to be in system and make extensive use of their middles. Hawaii serves usually give other teams a lots of problems. Not tonight. Shoji stated that Uiato plays by “feel,” often ignoring coaches’ instructions during the heat of the game. Long Beach made many of their runs when Hartong was in the back row. Long Beach was camping out on Kastl and Manu-Olevao when they were in the front row. Kastl was successful at the beginning but got less so at the end. Hawaii middles had a great hitting night but Uiato just instinctively goes to Hartong. Fortunately, Long Beach was not able to slow Hartong down in the last 3 sets and so it all worked out in the end. Croson will relieve some of the pressure off Hartong cuz Uiato also goes to Croson instinctively.